List of lakes of Kosovo explained

Kosovo is home to five large lakes. The largest of these is Gazivoda Lake, in the north-western part of Kosovo in the municipality of Zubin Potok. These are five of the largest lakes in Kosovo:

	Lake	Area (km^2)	Altit. (m)	Depth (m)	(Million m^3)	Type	Characteristics
1.	Gazivoda Lake^[1]	align:"right"	9.2	align:"right"	693	align:"right"	105	align:"right"	380	artificial	industrial reservoir (Ibar River)
2.	Radoniq Lake	align:"right"	5.06	align:"right"	455	align:"right"	30	align:"right"	113	artificial	industrial reservoir (Sosnica)
3.	Lake Batllava	align:""	3.07	align:""	600	align:""	35	align:""	40	artificial	industrial reservoir (Batllava)
4.	Badovc Lake^[2]	align:"right"	1.7	align:"right"		align:"right"	29	align:"right"	26	artificial	industrial reservoir (Gračanka)
5.	Fierza Reservoir	align"right"	2.46	align"right"	295	align"right"	128	align"right"		artificial	hydroelectric reservoir (Drin River)

• Gazivoda Lake is shared between Kosovo and Serbia. The total area of the lake is 11.9 km², while Serbia has less than one fourth of it (2.7 km²).
• Fierza Lake is shared between Kosovo and Albania. The total area of the lake is 73 km², while Kosovo only encompasses 2.46 km² of it.

Other lakes

Other, smaller lakes are to be found in Kosovo as well. These three lakes are located in the west and are all fed by tributaries of the South Morava:

• Përlepnicë Lake
• Livoq Lake
• Ruboc Lake
• Tropojë Lake

Many smaller beautiful lakes are found on the mountains (Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains). Leqinat lake and Little Liqenat Lake are found on Liqenat mountain, and Zemra Lake and Gjeravica Lake are found near the peak of Gjeravica.

Notes and References

1. Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo;
2. http://www.instat.gov.al Istitue of Statistics, Albania